Fire-escape



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM H. BURDEN AND FREDERICK C. BURDEN, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 260,001, dated June 27, 1882.

Application filed March 25, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom tt may concern:

Be it known that we, WILLIAM H. BURDEN and FREDERICK C. BURDEN, of Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fire-Escapes; andwe do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, .reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form apart of this specification.

This invention has for its object to provide a simple, inexpensive, convenient, easily operated, and efticient tire-escape.

To this end it consists in certain improvements in the construction and arrangement of parts, substantially as will be hereinafter more fully described, and particularly pointed out in the claim. v

In the drawings, Figure l is a perspective y view ofa building provided with our improved fire-escape. Fig. 2 is a detail view ofthe latter; and Fig. 3 is a top or plan view, on a reduced scale, ofthe building.

Referring by letter to the drawings, A designates a horizontal track, arranged entirely .side of theV car or basket.

or part of the way around the building, and preferably at the top thereof'. The track is VSupported at some distance from the walls of the building by braces or brackets B or any other suitable means, and is curved where it turns the corners, as shown'at C.

D is a hanger or carriage consisting of 4two plates or straps, E E, connected at their top F, and having a loop or eye, G, formed at the bottom of one of the plates or straps, between which latter is journaled a wheel or roller, H,

running on the track A.

I is a block in which is journaled a pulley, J, the block being provided at its top with a hook, K, adapted to be inserted in thev eye G of hanger D, to connect the latter and the pulley-block together.

L designates the car or basket, which is constructed of some light material, preferably wire or rope, and is provided with a bail, M, to which is attached a chain or r0pe,N, which passes up over the pulley J, and then down,

with its end secured to a bail, M', at right angles to the upper bail, M, and on the under When the end of the rope attached to the lower bail is drawn to pull the car from contact with thel flames vor any burning portion ofthe building the upper bail, being at right angles thereto, will recarriage arranged to slide on the track.

The operation and advantages of our invention will be readily understood by reference to the foregoing description and annexed drawings.

building by pulling the chain or rope at its lower end, and kept from the dames and properly guided by the branch of rope N, extending up to the bail M', and may be run along the track from window to window until all the occupants are speedily and safely transported to the ground. In like manner the'remen and hose may be elevated to any desired point.

Of course any number of cars may be provided, and when not in use we prefer to keep them in some convenient closet or receptacle, so arranged that when the car is put into service an alarm will be sounded to warn the inmates of the building.

Having thus described our invention, wel

In case'of iire the car may be quickly elevated to the desired iioor of thel claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of 9o the United States- In a fire-escape, the combination, with the car or basket having a bail at its top and a bail at its bottom, arranged at right angles to the one at its top, of the continuous elevating chain or rope secured to the top bail, and passing up over a suitable hanger and down, and secured to the lower* bail, so that the car can be conveniently guided and held from contact with the fire, as set forth.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing as our own we have hereto aiixed our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

' WILLIAM HENRY BURDEN.

FREDERICK -CHEEVER BURDEN. Witnesses: v J oIIN B. COFEINBERRY, HAMILTON RoosA..

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